Festo Robot Arm

Airics_arm is a robot arm with artificial bones and muscles.
A total of 30 muscles move the bone structure which, as with
our own arms, consists of ulna and radius, metacarpal and finger
bones, a shoulder joint and a shoulder bone-joints that are otherwise
not encountered in this formin the world of technology. Airics
bones have not grown of their own accord, nor do they automatic-
ally heal following a fracture. They were designed on computer
and are grown in a three-dimensional polyamide structure using a
state-of-the-art laser sintering process. The muscles, a product of
Festo, are already widely found in industrial application under the
name of Fluidic Muscles. These are tubes of elastomer reinforced
with aramide fibres. When a Fluidic Muscle is filled with compressed
air, its diameter increases and it is simultaneously shortened.

http://www.precisionpneumatics.co.uk/pneumatics.php

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• Festo
• Robot
• arm
• Mechanics
• Gadget

[TheEruditepolymath]

the singularity is near!

r u ready?

[Ogre302]

In high school I designed a robot arm using something similar made of the air suspension from my car and an engine cherry picker! It curled 400 pounds...

yet this is the most amazing example of robotic design I have seen. I used my design in a comic book... this one is far more incredible. The minds it took to make this stagger me.

Definately awesome!

[gadionson1]

awesome!

[KenshinARG]

i thought the arm was writing "hell" T_T

[aarsjen]

Did that terminator just wrote "help" on the board?

[NightRunner417]

@TheEruditepolymath Ready for what, man?? There ain't no "ready" when you can't even know what's coming! Game over man, game over! ;-)

[HeVsuit]

can it build mini sentries?

[salvadorviniegra1]

he is asking for help!!!!, I know he wrote that!

[sneakyabcd]

but does it give hand jobs?

[wsanriv]

thats the freacking hand of terminator!!!! the DOOMS DAY IS NEAR AND THEY DONT HAVE Pancake mix!!!

Very cool vid btw

[AZURA888]

jeje how many microcontrolers to control the actuators, this shows how complex is the human body, but technology development is so violent that in 25 years more we would see to terminator.